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Subject: Re: Movei - Genius 2 : 1-6 with 1 draw

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 05:33:59 10/27/03

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On October 26, 2003 at 16:22:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 26, 2003 at 16:03:11, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On October 26, 2003 at 15:29:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I believe that movei of today is slightly weaker than Genius2 but I guess that
>>>6.5-1.5 is too high to give the correct difference.
>>
>>Let's wait and see. After 3 games with same conditions the score Yace-Genius 2
>>is 1.5-1.5 ( 3 draws)
>>
>>I'll be on travel for some days, see you.
>
>I will try to improve movei and
>my plan is to try to get improvement in order of moves in the near future.
>
>It seems that Genius was relatively lucky to get endgames with passed pawns for
>both sides.

Formerly, I would let Comet often play against Genius. Several times, I had
observed that Lang must have implemented some very smart knowlege regarding
passed pawn races.

Whatever it is, it is effective (and it's a secrete, I guess).

Regards,
Uli


>
>I do not see this kind of endgame so often in games of movei against other
>players.
>
>The same Movei that you tested play in another tournament and it got endgames in
>all of its games
>
>It has 2.5/3 against gaviota,Dorky and Beowulf
>
>It won equal or better endgames and drew an inferior endgame so I do not feel
>that endgame is a major weakness of it inspite of the fact that it does not
>search deep enough.
>
>>
>>>
>>>Maybe in a long match it can be even worse because movei has almost no
>>>learning except learning to change first move after seeing a bad evaluation
>>>against itself(If I remember correctly more than 5 pawns against itself) that
>>>prevents losing the same game twice in a match of 4 games.
>>>
>>
>>Genius 2 has no learner at all.
>>
>>Peter
>
>In this case there is no problem and if the book of genius2 is big enough the
>learner of movei has also no influence.
>
>Uri



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